I thought to myself, Join the army.It's free.So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.- John Candy

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.- John Ray

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny,but never a skinny person says that to me,only people who could lose a few pounds say that.- Karl Lagerfeld

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions.The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.- Eric Heiden

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal.Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working personto handle all of a sudden,and I felt I didn't deserve it.- Peter Green

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds ofhalibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.- David Niven

When my babe was born, they said it was premature.It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.- Harriet Ann Jacobs

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage,and it has nothing to do with their bodies.- Kirstie Alley

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe,the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds;and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.- William Bligh

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar yearsand years ago for nine pounds.It's still got the same strings on it.- Brian Eno

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds andthousands of man hours into a stale,historical situation from three decades ago -with virtually no complaints made?- Jonathan King

Meat is an inefficient way to eat.An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes,but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.- Alexandra Paul

I'm scared to death of being poor.It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside.I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside.It's my pet paranoia.- Cher

I wasn't eating.I wasn't sleeping.All I was doing was cocaine.I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom.I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.- Andy Gibb

I am now a turtle.Virtually everything I own is on my back and sufficeit to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier.All houses are gone.- Bobby Darin

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.- Robert Atkins

Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.- William Lowndes

Now I walk every where I can.I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes.I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.- Della Reese

It is now common knowledge that the average Americangains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.- Marilu Henner

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.- Mae West

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did,you fear that you'll never get back in shape.- Charisma Carpenter

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment.The most that I had put on was about 35,36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.- Sean Astin

Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race.You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race,depending on hot it is.- Michael Andretti

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds.I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.- Erma Bombeck

With twelve horse power at our command,we considered that we could permit the weight of themachine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds,and still have as much surplus power as we had originallyallowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.- Orville Wright

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times,and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling,it is the labor of the poor and not the high and lowvalue that is set on gold or silver,which all the comforts of life must arise from.- Bernard de Mandeville

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand.Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know,building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.- Richard Branson

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds.And though I was active in a lot of Sports and gotalong with most of the guys,I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism.You know making someone laugh is a much better wayto solve a problem than by using your fists.- Tim Conway

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway.They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs.To hell with the people!If someone weighs a couple more pounds,that's it!- Itzhak Perlman

I had started losing weight.I mean he didn't know anything about the journey thatI was on at that point obviously but from my highestweight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.- Star Jones

The one I was driving for at the time,Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship,because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok,that might be ok when you're doing an international championship,but not for a national one.- David Leslie

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings,and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him,weighed a hundred and eighty.The latter was an inch shorter than his rival,and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course,without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste,surround himself with books, all in his own language,and thence forward have at least one place in the world.- Augustine Birrell

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money.The country as a whole is now in negative equity.Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds.Servicing the interest on that debt is going to costmore than educating the child.- Daniel Hannan

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born,and yoga three days a week.I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide theycan turn into garbage disposals.I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.- Gisele Bundchen

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think,but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing.I'd take a shell and a bag of powder,I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.- Barney Ross

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds,whether you have a sex change operation for that matter,that it doesn't matter, that there is some part ofourselves that we cannot escape.- Todd Solondz

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed tobe paid five pounds but we never got it,and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it.So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.- Andy Partridge

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds.There was a live performance thing so we thought we'ddonate the equipment for an online charity in Britain.I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.- Dan Hawkins

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well;and their affection for me was so great,that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others,although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me,on purpose to give me a parole to go home.- Daniel Boone